MORSE, Wayne Lyman, a Senator from Oregon; born near Madison, Dane County, Wis., October 20,
1900; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1923,
and received a graduate degree from that institution in 1924; graduated from the law department of
the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1928, and from the law school at Columbia University,
N.Y., in 1932; held a reserve commission as second lieutenant, Field Artillery, United States Army
1923-1929; taught argumentation at the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota; assistant professor
of law at the University of Oregon at Eugene 1929, associate professor 1930, and dean and professor
of law 1931-1944; member of the Oregon Crime Commission; administrative director, United States
Attorney Generals Survey of Release Procedures 1936-1939; Pacific Coast arbitrator for the United
States Department of Labor (maritime industry) 1938-1942, and also served in other capacities of the
Labor Department; chairman of the Railway Emergency Board 1941; alternate public member of the
National Defense Mediation Board 1941; public member of the National War Labor Board
1942-1944; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1944; reelected in 1950;
reelected as a Democrat in 1956 and again in 1962, and served from January 3, 1945, to January 3,
1969; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; lecturer and labor arbitrator; distinguished
visiting scholar, State University of New York 1969-1970; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate in 1972; won the Democratic senatorial nomination in 1974 and was actively
engaged in campaigning when he died July 22, 1974, in Portland, Oreg.; interment in Rest Haven
Memorial Park, Eugene, Oreg.